Christmas and New Year Cards

Three cards, from Cathay Arts, San Francisco, mailed in the late 1940s.

Yang Ling-fu
Artist at Work

Yang Ling-fu
Playmates

Chang Shu-chi
Winter Bamboo

Related Posts
Yang Ling-Fu in Who’s Who in China
Yang Ling-Fu at the Sesquicentennial Exposition
Yang Ling-Fu in The Berkeley Daily Gazette
Yang Ling-Fu in the Boston Traveler


(Next post on Friday: Golden Spike Ceremony “… Chinese, Indian, Mexican, and negro workman …”)

Four Seasons by Ling-fu Yang

Spring Season

Summer Season

Autumn Season

 Winter Season

Related Posts
Yang Ling-Fu in Who’s Who in China
Yang Ling-Fu at the Sesquicentennial Exposition
Yang Ling-Fu in The Berkeley Daily Gazette
Yang Ling-Fu in the Boston Traveler


(Next post on Friday: The East and West Association’s Comic Book Project)

Views from Asian California, 1920-1965

An Illustrated History by Michael Brown
1992 (self-published)

A private collection of artwork by artists of Chinese and Japanese descent in California. Below is a list of the Chinese American artists, most of whom are represented by artwork. Dates are from the book.

Eva Fong Chan (1897–1991), profile
Wah Ming Chang (1917– ), profile, two wood block prints, etching, and pastel drawing
George Chann (1915– ), profile and three oil paintings
David Paul Chun (1899– ), profile one woodcut and two lithographs
Yun Gee (1906–1963), profile
Hon-Chew Hee (1905– ), profile and two oil paintings
Dong Kingman (1911– ), profile and two watercolors
John Kwok (1920–1983), profile
Chee Chin S. Cheung Lee (1896– ), profile, watercolor and oil painting
Jake Lee (1915–1992), profile and watercolor
Peter Lowe (1913–1990), profile
Keye Luke (1911–1991), profile
Wing Kwong-Tse (1902– ), profile and watercolor
Nanying Stella Wong (1914– ), profile
Tyrus Wong (1910– ), profile
Gary Woo (1928– ), profile and oil painting
Jade Fon Woo (1911–1893), profile and two watercolors
Ling-fu Yang (1889–1978), profile
Richard Yip (1919–1981), profile and two watercolors
Lai Yong (1840–?), profile
John Chin Young (1909– ), profile and watercolor
Si Chen Yuan (1911–1974), profile and oil painting

(Next post on Friday: Tyrus Wong and Venus Water-Coloring Pencils)

Yang Ling-fu in the Boston Traveler

Boston Traveler

(Massachusetts)

May 13, 1947

(click image to enlarge)

(Tomorrow: John Zane Cartoons)

Yang Ling-fu in the Berkeley Daily Gazette

Berkeley Daily Gazette

(California)

July 14, 1937

July 17, 1937

July 24, 1937

April 2, 1940

September 16, 1941

“Poetess in Exile” 

January 10, 1944

November 26, 1945

(Tomorrow: Yang Ling-fu in the Boston Traveler)

Yang Ling-fu at the Sesquicentennial Exposition

Ancestry.com Passenger List

Name: Ling Fu Yang

Gender: Female, Single

Age: 30

Language: Chinese and English

Birthplace: Tientsin, China

Race/Nationality: Chinese

Last Residence: Peking, China

Height: 5 feet 3 inches

Complexion: Yel

Hair: Blk

Eyes: Dark

The name and complete address of nearest

relative or friend in country whence alien came:

Mr Z.Y. Horn

c / o Jairt Saving Society Peking China

Purpose of coming to United States:

To attend exposition at Philadelphia Pa

Length of time: Less than 1 yr

Ship Name: S.S. President Jackson

Departure Date: October 12, 1926

Port of Departure: Shanghai, China

Arrival Date: October 26 / 27, 1926

Port of Arrival: Seattle, Washington

Seattle Daily Times
(Washington)
October 27, 1926
tenth line from bottom
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October 28, 1926
Her English name was Edith Young.

Asian American Art: A History, 1850-1970

Stanford University Press, 2008

About the Sesquicentennial Exposition

The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia

Wikipedia

Sesquicentennial Exposition Ephemera

Yang Ling-fu returned ten years later.

Name: Ling Fu Yang

Gender: Female, Single

Age: 33

Calling or occupation: Artist

Language: Chinese and English

Birthplace: Wuish, Kaingsu, China [sic]

Race/Nationality: Chinese

Last permanent residence: Peiping, China

Height: 5 feet 3 inches

Complexion: Dk

Hair: Blk

Eyes: Blk

The name and complete address of nearest

relative or friend in country whence alien came:

Mr Yang Shu Nan

West City Tai Ping Bridge 53 Peiping, China

Purpose of coming to United States:

K.H. Chow Director Chinese Exhibit

Texax Centennial Dalax Texas [sic]

Length of time: 1 mo

Ship Name: S.S. Kathleen

Departure Date: October 26, 1936

Port of Departure: Vancouver, BC

Arrival Date: October 27, 1936

Port of Arrival: Seattle, Washington

(Tomorrow: Yang Ling-fu in the Berkeley Daily Gazette)

Yang Ling-fu in Who’s Who in China

Who’s Who in China

Biographies of Chinese Leaders

Fifth Edition

The China Weekly Review, 1936

page 272, column 1

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Miss Yang Ling-fu, artist and poet; native of Wusih, Kiangsu; born of a family distinguished for scholastic attainments; received a thorough Chinese education in her youth and took special interest in poetry and painting; wrote exquisite verses while still young; also fond of philosophy and literature; gained fame as a painter in China and was awarded medals by both President Yuan Shih-kai and President Hsu Shih-chang for her productions; participated in the Philadelphia Exposition with her productions in 1926 which made her widely known in the United States; was invited to partake in the joint Sino-Japanese Art Exposition during the time of the coronation of the reigning Japanese emperor in 1928 at Tokyo, where her work was highly praised and awarded prizes; between these two exhibitions, she spent two years in reproducing the portraits of the Manchu emperors and empresses at the Palace Museum of Mukden; one of her special feats in art is a complete model of the Summer Palace in Peiping which won her much admiration from many Chinese and foreign artists; author of a volume on poems and paintings and several novels.

A biographical sketch of Yang Ling-fu is in the book, Artists in California, 1786–1940, which can be read here. Tomorrow: Yang Ling-fu at the Sesquicentennial Exposition.